Filling Quotes - Page 5

• Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Survival, Honor

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths,and, at your stir of assent,spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven.

  Jessica Powers

  Faith, Moving, Inspiration

  Jessica Powers (2015). “The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers”, p.57, ICS Publications

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• The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, Hair, Tree

  "Fictional character: Cecilia Lisbon". "The Virgin Suicides", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dream, Heart, Broken

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• I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Swings, Mouths

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.162, Scholastic Inc.

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• The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

  Richard Kadrey

  Sorry, Thinking, Play

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• In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Lists, Bigger, Importance

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• The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

  Arlene J. Chai

  Air, Space, Missing

  Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• ..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Forever, Mind

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• In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

  Kate Morton

  Lying, Heart, Dark

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn’t think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn’t hold it against them in the long run. We couldn’t afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.

  Kiera Cass

  Running, Thinking, Want Something

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.

  Keith Floyd

  Home, Heart, Joy

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• I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

  Rachel Vincent

  Art, Jobs, Believe

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.27, Harlequin

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• In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Evening Light, Glasses, Water

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt breath and looked at Kylie. She nodded at him as if giving him the lead. He looked back at Holiday and, in a deep voice, said, "Kylie has something to tell you." Kylie's mouth fell open and right then she knew it was official. Men sucked at verbal communication especially where anything emotional was concerned.

  C.C. Hunter

  Communication, Holiday, Eye

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• Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

  Laini Taylor

  Fire, Light, Blood

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• As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mirrors, Air, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.171, Penguin

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• Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

  Jennifer Worth

  Love Life, Dark, Joy

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• All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Cities, Forever

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• She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Filling In, Jem

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1409, Simon and Schuster

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• I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.

  Kiersten White

  Eye, Dark, Rushing

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• I looked where he was tapping. "Local Girl Missing, Feared Dead" Beneath it was a photo or me-my most recent school photo. "Oh no." My heart filling with dread, i took the paper from Mr. Smith's hands. "Couldn't they have found a better picture?

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Heart, School

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Teaching, Fire, Filling Up

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